First time with UEM and AppVolumes Server requirements

[EPCHC]

First time ever doing this... and I know the server requirements, but nothing is clear cut on if it needs to be a dedicated server or not.  I'm at a small business of only 145 users.  I installed the UEM manager on my view composer server and was considering just doing the same for the App Volumes manager.  I've read several docs that say to have two diff instances of App Volumes managers going.  I just didn't think that was necessary in my situation.  In summary.. am I safe doing these installs piggyback or a dedicated server for my needs.

Thanks.

[Ray_handels]

I would always suggest installing Appvolumes on a dedicated server. It installs a NGINX webserver and needs port 80 and port 443 so you would need to free up those ports.

If you would like to install 2 managers is up to you, this is just for redundancy, not for performance. You can provide about 1000 machines with a single Appvolumes server. It does however also depend on the use case. If you have users logging in and out you might need a more powerful manager. If they only log in in the morning there is no need for that.

Regarding UEM, there is no server for that, just a share that you connect to. Install the "manager" (just a client) on your own machine and connect to the share you created. Only thing to take into consideration here is to make sure you have enough disk space. If you are going to user the user personalization part of UEM you could end up with large zip files hogging up disk space. I'd suggest just using file servers for that or something similar, not your composer server.. But that's just my 2 cents..

[EPCHC]

My company is most interested in performance.  So I won't be doing 2 managers.  If it serves 1000 machines and I will only have around 130 it just seemed like overkill to have a dedicated server.  I don't imagine high volume, high use... like what you said... most users will log in the morning and then very little change during day.

Yes I have plenty of room on the shares for UEM because they are on our file server.

[sjesse]

I have between 70-170 concurrent users using instant clones that are always deleting and recreating, with appvolumes and uem, and I've only had one and I have seen no performance issues. Its just for redundancy. In very large environments, there are reasons to have an extra one for performance reasons, but thats after you have a bunch of managers already